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VOL. XIX.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 15, 1877.
NO. 142
THE BELLIGERENTS.
FIUHT at KABa.
RUSSIANS WAS* AROUND KARS, ATTACK THE
PLACE AMD ABE TERRIBLY REPULSED—
BU881AK8 EXPECTED TO 0B0S8 THE DANUBE
AT ONCE—TURKS CAPTURE CRETAN POW-
DEB—RUSSIANS O'SOASMANS REFUSE TO
FIGHT THE MOHAKMKDANS—TURKS WIN
THE DUCA PASS IN MONTENEORO.
BATTLE BEPORE KARS.
London, Jane 14.—Buster's Telegram
Company have received ills following dis
patch :
Constantinople, Wednesday evening.—
The Saltan is staying at the Ministry of
War awaiting the news from Kars, where
a great batt le is progressing.
CROSSING OF DANUBE EXPECTED.
The Daily News' Vienna dispatch hcs
the following: Certain signs point to
Thursday or Friday next as the date of
crossing the Danube. Jnst before that
operation takes'place, it is expeoted the
Czar will issue a manifesto.
ASKED FOB AUTHORITY TO TREAT.
It is rumored that Lofort Pasha has re
quested the Hnitan to entrust him with a
peace mission to PeoiBter.
MONTENEORO.
A special to the Daily Telegraph from
Vienna of Wednesday says Suliman Pasha
started yesterday to raviotualing Niosiea
for a year. The Telegraph’s Batoum dis
patch states that the Russians are pushing
seige workR. Beinforcements are greatly
needed. Without relief the troops there
will beoome tired out. Turkish offloers
are despondent.
Constantinople, June 14.—An offioial
telegram dated, June 13th, Bays Suliman
Pesha hpa forced the entrance of Doga
pasB after'h sanguinary battle, and is ad
vancing on Niesio. The Montenegrins are
in full retreat.
RUSSIAN LOAN.
London, June 14.—The Times in its
financial column says the ltussian loan of
$73,000,000, the Imperial r'lase author!
zing whioh was published at St. Peters
burg yesterday, is said to have been orig
inally offered to housos here, and refused.
It is now to be issued at Paris and Berlin.
It is stated that the issue prioe is seventy
per cent., and that the syndicate of bank
ers have taken the loan at a net prioe so far
below this figure as to leave ample margin,
in faoe of the foot that an international
foroed loan of 200,000,000 roubles has also
been decreed. This borrowing does in
deed indioate rapid exhaustion.
DANUBE TO BE CROSSED IN JULY—TUP IS TO
BE FOOT ID.
The Times’ correspondent at Buohr-est
telegraphs: The Bnssians and Turks
have oonstruoted strong batteries on op.
posits shores of the Danube at Saturnou
and Isaktobi, where the Bnssians crossed
in 1828. The immense mass of material
whioh the Bnssians are moving toward
the Danube can scarcely be lodged in the
depots on the river before the first of
July. It is, therefore, soaroely probable
that any attempt will be made to cross
before that month, and this supposition
is strengthened by the present state of
the Danube. The enemy will certainly
be on the alert on account of the Czar’s
arrival at headquarteis, and therefore,
instead of the Czar’s arrival,as thought by
some being an indication of immediate
aotivity, it is much more probable that it
will be allowed to lose its awaken'-rg
effect on the Turks, and they will be suf<
feted to relapse into their usual lethar-
gio state. I do not believe the Bu'siana
will cross at the, earliest moment praoti
cable ; but probably affer the first r’arm,
when the aotivity, aroused by their ap
pearanoe in dose proximity to the Dan
ube, has subsided.
TURKS IDVAMOE IN ASIA—ATTACK ON KARS
< FOILED.
Ebzeboum, June 14.—The Turks, after
occupying Olti, marched in advanoe of
Ardahan. The Iinsain detachment had
been sent from Ardah-u. The left een-
tre, twelve battalions of troops, a field
battery and four mountain guns, have left
Delibaba to attack a oolr-nn of ‘he Bus
Rian left wing before Toprak Kcleh.
ATTACKS ON KARS REPULSED.
Constantinople, June 14.—Three at
tacks were made on Friday by the lius-
sians against Fort Towers, whioh was
erected in 1855 to strengthen the defenoe
of Fort Vdi Paohi, whioh Is the key to
Kars. Other returned attacks followed on
Baturday but the result is unknown.
MONTENEGRINS DEFEAT! ).
A dispatoh from Lieutenrnt General
Mehped Ali, dated June 12, announces
the defeat of the Montenegrins' at Atohina.
TOBFEDO ATTACKS ON A MONITOR.
London, June 14.—A ilutaehuk dig-
Patoh received yesterday saya last night a
Party of Bnssians, near Maretin, attempt
ed an attaek in boats npon a Turkish
monitor. The latter, with the help of a
land battery, beat them off. To-day an
other appeared in the islands, but the
Tnrke compelled the enemy to retrdst.
Both affairs were considered feints to find
out the position of the Ti"kiah batteries.
The second edition of the Standard
Publishes a dispatoh from ita special oor-
'eapondent with Mnkhtar Pasha’s camp,
dated Seeivin Ethel Seeivin, Jnne 12th,
Whioh says: Reports have arrived from
Km* that the lioseians havo amassed
•round Kars all the t -oops which tb»y
brought from Ardahan, Gnmrg, Kagis-
jjume and Boarieamiobe for several days.
They have attempted to storm the ports of
Aihmtz and Karadagh, but on every oo-
B ** io €(*ey were repulsed.
On Baturday they made desperate ef-
take pomeeeton of some of the
“•[fihta, when the garrison of Kan made
•jwtio in force with field artillery and
t"X*ed the Russians with great lorn.
There are no Unarian soldiers between
OUi and Erzeroom. Mnkhtar Pasha’s
pickets entered from hie camp at Zewin
to Olti on one side and to Erzeroom on
the other.
BUS8IAN ACCOUNTS OF XABS.
St. Petersdubo, Jnne 14.—An official
telegram from Maxro, abont eight miles
Northeast of Kan, dated yesterday, an
nounces that the Turks are attempting
to form counter approaches, and are con
stantly making sorties. The Buieian bat
teries have been very successful in frua-
tratiog all these attempts. A sortie was
yesterday repulsed with heavy lose to the
Turks. Seven Russians were elightly
wounded.
TURKEY ON IUIZ CANAL.
London, June 14.—A dispatoh from
Constantinople to the Times aaye that the
Porte is expected to reply to the English
notification, regarding the Suez Canal,
that it ooneidere the oanal Turkish prop
erty, and as Turkey has the right lo fight
her enemies on the high aeas, she has ob
viously the right to oppose them on her
own territory; at the same time she
reoognizes the great importance of the
eanal to the whole world, and will try to
prevent it from beooming the aoene of
hostilities by occupying each end with
trrops, so as to prevent the entrance of
any Russian ships.
CIRCASSIAN REVOLT.
OampCeidin, June .14.—The Oiroassiaus
in the Russian service numbering six cav
alry regiments, having refused to operate
againBt their Mohammedan brethren have
been sent from the main oolnmn towards
Bayazida. The Rnaaiant who retired
from Penneok, Olti and Soghanln have
gathered round Kars.
PEACE RUMOBS DISMISSED.
Constantinople, June 14.—The Turk
ish newspapers in referring to the peace
rumors, lately onrrent are strongly adverse
to pesos and dismiss the enbjeot as un
worthy of dieenmion.
RUSSIAN PROVISION FOR SICK AND WOUNDED.
Special lo Enquirer-Sun.]
Berlin, Jnne 14.—The Russians have
organized fifteen field hospitals contain
ing altogether 20,000 beds, to be distribu
ted over llonmania and adjoining dis
tricts. This provision for siok and wound
ed is thought sufficient for ell emergen
cies.
AT BUCHAREST.
Special lo Enquirer-Sun.]
Vienna, June 14.—Political Corres
pondence has a telegram from Bucharest
that Prinoo Gortsohakoff and Gen. Igna-
tieff intend to reside a time at Buohareat.
MILAN EN ROUTE.
Orcova, June 14.—Prinoe Milan is here
en route to Ploiesti.
BATTERY F IIOTYD.
Constantinople, Jana 14.—The Hus
sians have ereoted a battery on an island
oppoisito Rutschnok.
BEK VIA.
Belgrade, June 14.—A decree has
been issued oonvoking the Sknptiohina
in extraordinary session at Kragnjavalz
on July let.
WASHINGTON.
ASSISTANT TREASURER FRENCH
GIVES AN OPINION.
SECRETARY SHERMAN SAYS IT IS A TECHNI
CALITY—RUSSIAN UKASE—SILVER ISSUE
FOB SMALL BILLS—NO APPOINTMENTS OF
CONSEQUENCE.
FRANCE.
OOURSE OF THE LEFT.
Special lo Enquirer-Sun.] v
Paris, Jnne 14.—Leaden of the Left
reaolved to maintain a perfect oslm in the
Chamber on Baturday, when M. Gambol-
ta's interpellation is presented, so tbst
the debate may bear ail possible frnit.
They also appeal to the Republicans not
to go to the railway Btation to witness the
arrival or departure of deputies, or make
any demonstration. The irreconcilable
Radios! leader M. Modier DeMontjan has
promised not to speak in Saturday’s de
bate and will leave the direction of pro
ceedings to other groups of the Left.
INCITING WORKMEN TO strike.
Special to Enquirer-Sun.]
Paris, Juno 14.—It is reported tbst
meetings of members of the international
society are being held on the Franoo.
Belgian frontier with the objeot of incit
ing workmen to striko.
RUSSIAN FRIGATES SAILED.
Special lo Enquirer-Sun ]
Brest, Jnne 14.—Three Rnseian frig
ales whioh have been lying in this harbor
sailed to-day; destination is nnknown.
THE VATICAN ASKED BUT MAI '* NO SIGN
REGARDING BOMAPABTISTS.
London, Jnne 14.—The Times’ Rome
special reports a person of high position
direotly inquired of the Holy Sea how it
wonld look npon a Bnnapartist movement
in France. On its reply a more or less
energetic system of agitation wonld de
pend, but the Vatican has made no eign,
ENGLAND.
BANQUET TO A1 IRIOANS.
Liverpool, Jnne 14.—The American
Chamber of Commeiee deoided to give
banquet to the delegatee of the Interna
tional Cotton Convention.
RACE FOB GOLD CUP.
London, Jnne 14.—The race for the
gold onp, the great event of the day. was
won by Potrarob, Skylark second, Coo
mosaic third.
SUEZ CANAL.
Special lo Enquirer-Sun. 1
London. Jnno 14.—In the Commons
Sir Stafford Northcote, Ohanoellor of the
Exchequer, replying to a question stated
Russia's reply to England’s intimation for
bidding tbo exercise of belligerent rights
in the Suez Canal was to the effect that
Russia wonld neither blockade, interrupt
nor menace tbo navigation of the canal n
any manner. He addod repliaa from tha
Porte end Khedive to British oommnnica
tiona on the anbjaot had not yet been re
aived. t <
HaaipMn Loaves far New York
Special lo Ike Enquirer-Sun.]
Charleston, Jnne 14.—Gov. Hampton
will leave Columbia for Naw York to
morrow night,
GEORGIA CONVENTION.
OABBIED BY 10,000—NORTH GEORGIA UNAN
IMOUS FOB IT.
Atlanta, Jnne 14.—The majority for
the Convention will reaeb 10,000. The
oonntiee in North Georgia are almost
unanimous for the Convention.
BONDS PAYABLE IN GOLD.
Washington, June 14.—Mr. French,
Assistant Secretary of the Treasnry, has
given an opinion to Secretary Sherman to
the effeot that ali United States bonds,
issued since date when silver was demons
tized are payable in gold and not in
silver. This opinion has the approval of
Seoretary Sherman.
FRACTIONAL CURRENCY OUTSTANDING.
The Oommissionere estimate the frac
tional currency ont of oironlation from
loss or dostrnotion at eight million dollars.
is believed Sherman will issue silver
change to this amount.
ILLICIT DISTILLERS.
Commissioner ltanm received a letter
signed by abont fifty prominent citizens
of Southwestern Virginia, among whom
are two county judges, two distriot atlor-
Dies and other offloials, asking that a suf
ficient foroe be sent to co operate with
them in bringing illioit distillers to jns-
ttoe.
SHERMAN ON FBENOH’s LETTER.
Washington, June 14.—Secretary
Sherman says the letter printed this
morning on the anbjeot of the payment
of bonds in gold, and signed by H. F.
Frenob, Assistant Seoretary, is not to be
regarded as the offioial nation of the
Treasury Department, as it was intended
only as an expreision of the iudividnal
views of Mr. Frenoh. The Secretary has
not taken, nor will he take any notion in
the matter, aa to do eo would seem to
preclude the aotion Congress might deter
mine to take on the enbjeot.
RUSSIAN UKASE.
Tbo State Department baa a copy of
the ukase (official) famished by Russia.
It allows subjocts of nentral Slates to
ooniinno their oommeroiel intereonrse
with Russian porta and cities, provided
they observe the laws of the empire, and
the prineiples of internatienal laws, so
far as this is allowable by the conditions
of military operations.
SILVER ISSUE.
The issue of one and two dollar green
backs waa discontinued ! n the Treasnry in
this city mainly to indnoe banks and indi
viduals to take and pat into oirouiation
silver ooins. Silver is now going ont of
the Treasnry at the rate of a million per
month, and the fall greenback fund of
ten millions of dollars, aatborizgd by law
is ao well aaenred that the Treasury will
probably soon resume shipments of one
and two dollar billa.
NORTH CAROLINA POSTAL AFFAIRS.
Gen. B. II. Dockery, ex-member of
Congress from North Carolina, who has
been in the oity several days in oonsulta-
tion with the President and Cabinet, he
had an interview with the Postmaster
General to-dry,relative to postal affairs in
that State, whioh was most satisfactory.
Speoial agent J. O. Hester, under instnes
lions from the Department of Justice,
leaves to-night for North Carolina to
summons witnesses in the oase of U. S.
Deputy Marshal Franks, who is under
oharges here preferred against him by
Marshal R. M. Donglass of the Western
District of North Carolina, for fraud
against the U. S. Government.
Henry B. Niobolls is commissioned
postmaster at Norfolk.
SHERMAN WANTS SILVER SAME AS PAPER
DOLL'1.
Secretary Sherman’s opinion seems to
be that all that is necessary is to make the
silver dollar a legal tender, precisely as
the paper dollar now is, and let tho
amount of coinage be regalated by the
wants of the people, to those who desire
to exchange paper for silver. He wonld
give the fullest opportunities, and he
thinke that there wonld be no tronbie
abont what sort of onrrenoy they have.
The opinion of Mr. Fronch is not an of
ficial one.
DEAD.
Gen. O. F. llenningsen is dead.
JODGE LOOHRANE FAVORS JUDGE WARNER
FOB BUPBEIAE COURT.
Special lo Enquirer-Sun.]
Washington, Jnne 14.—Jndge Loeh-
rane, of Georgia, is qnoled in high oiroles
that he is no oandidate himself for the
Supreme Benoh, bnt if any Georgian is
appointed bo favors Judge Warner, preB
ent Chief Justice, as the ablest conslitu>
tional lawyer in the State.
SYNDICATE NOTICE.
The syndicate gives notioe that from
date until Jnly ICtb, at 3 o’clock p. m.,
they will seoeive subscriptions for the
fonr per cent, fnnded loan at par and ac
crued interest in gold coin. Tbo bonds
will be ready for delivery July 2d prox.
CUSHING RESIGNS.
Tbe compliments of a correspondence
haa passed between Mr. Evarts and Caleb
Cashing, in whioh Cashing's resignation
of the Spanish Mission is acoopted, to
take effect at Ibis date.
Bridge Blown Down by n Hurri
cane,
Special to Enquirer-Sun.]
Springfield, Mass., June 14.—The
covered bridge over the Connecticut river,
betweon Northampton and Hadley, waa
blown over by a hnrrioane this afternoon.
An nnoompieted bridge of tbe Maasachn-
Betts Central Railroad waa also demol
ished. Six teams were In the bridge
when it went over. Mrs. Sailiven was
instantly killed. Sheriff Enoe Cook, of
Hailiey, waa badly out in the head, and
Wm. Smith, of Amherst had a shoulder
dislocated. Two horses were taken from
tbe mins alive. The bridge was 1,124
feet long, and the newest portion of it has
been built abont fifteen years. Numer
ous tobacco sheds were blown down by
the gale.
Kallroad Wreck.
Special lo Enquirer-Sun.J
Indianapolis, Ind., June 14.—The fast
train on the Pittsbnrg, Cincinnati and
St. Lonis Railroad due here late last night
was wrecked u short distance east of this
oity. A switch being, partly ohanged and
a oroBs tie wedged between tbe rails, tbe
engine, baggage, express and mail ears
were thrown from the track badly dam
aged, but the paasonger coaches and
sleeping cars did not leave the traok.
Earnest B Cole, postal olerk, was the
only petHon seriously hart, but a nnmber
reoeived slight injuries. Every effort
will be made to disoovor tbo perpetrators
of the outrage and bring them to justice.
EX-REBEL FELICITATIONS.
TOOMBS ON THE NEW
OF THINGS.
ORDER
WHY HI TOLERATES PRESIDENT HAYES—
HOW HE STILL PROUDEY WORSHIPS THE
CONFEDERATE FLAG AND GLORIES IN THE
RE-ASSERTION OF STATE SOVEREIGNTY.
Storm In New Yorjk.
Special to Enquirer-Bun.]
Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Jnne 14.—A fu
rious storm of rain and hail accompanied
by a terrible wind storm, passed over the
city this afternoon. The damage to frnit
and growing orops are heavy. A nntnber
of buildings were etrnck by lightning, bnt
no one was killed. Trees wore blown
down end immense quantities of glaei
broken.
ST. LOUIS.
FAILURE OF COMMERCIAL FIBE INSURANCE
COMPANY—SENATOR BOOT LOSSES $100,-
000, AND HIS SON, THE PRESIDENT,
$00,000.
St. Louis, Jnne 14.—A dispatoh says
tboro is considerable sensation among the
stockholders of tbe Commercial Fire In
surance Company, which made an assign
ment on Tuesday. Joseph Bogy, son of
United States Senator Bogy, was Presi
dent of the Company, and ita aative
manager. Senator Bogy, was the heaviest
stockholder. He slates he is a loser to
the extent of $100,000 cash, and that the
disaster will ruin him financially, if his
creditors are not indulgent. Joseph Bogy
loses $00,000, including a full mortgage
on his residence, and all his property.
Joseph Bogy was also President of the
Exchange Bank of this oity, and to-day
resigned that position. His friends rep
resent that he is completely erushed.
RACES.
AT OOLUMRUS, OHIO.
Special lo Enquirer-Sun.]
Columbus, Ohio, Jane 14.—Three-
quarter mile—Entight won, Bill Banuders
sooond, in l:lCj.
Mile beats—First, Belle Dilion won,
Keno second, in 1:48}. Dillon took the
second in 1:48}, and tho third aid race
in 1:40}.
Two miles—Long Bow won the rooe in
3:43, Glasgow sooond.
TBOTTING AT DOSTON.
Special to Enquirer-Sun.]
Boston, Juno 14.—Beaoon Park—2:29
olass, won by Martha Washington,straight
heats; Driver 2d. Time 2:21}, 2:25},
2:20}.
2:34 raoo—won by Highland Grey, tak
ing the last throe beats; Fearnangbt 2d,
and Queoohy Maid 3d. Time 2:28, 2:20,
2:29}, 2:30}, 2:32. Foarnaugbt took tbe
first two.
Jerome l*nrk Knee*.
Special lo Enquirer-Sun.]
Jerome Park, June 14.—Mile—Explo
sion won, ltodamantbas 2d, Hertral 3d.
in 1:45}.
Mile and a half for threo year old filliea
—Idalia won, Soozoo 2d, Oriole 3d, in
2:41}.
Milo and an eighth heats—First, Am-
basil, Conner, Mister of Mercy, in 2:00}
seoond, same ordor, in 2:02}.
Milo and three-quarters—ran in driving
thnnder storm—Vioeroy won, Rappaban
nook 2d, Galway 3d, in 3:13}.
Trotters.
Omaha, Jnne 14.—Bndd Doble, with
Goldsmith Maid, Bodine and Volney
passed through hero bound eastward yes'
terdsy.
GERMANY.
bishop remov: >.
Berlin, Jr\o 14.—The Ecolosioatiei
Court has sentenced the Bishop of Lim
burg to removal frofc office.
Naceweded to tbe Crown.
Special lo Enquirer-Sun.]
Darmstadt, June 14.—The Official
Journal annonoes the accession of
Prinoo Lonis, of llesie, to the tl—ooe of
the Grand Dnoby of Hesse undar the
title of Louis IV.
tkarxed Wttb lerslni Passes,
Philadelphia, Jnel4.—8. F. W'lson
the railroad ticket scalper, is held in $5,
000 bail on the obarge of forging passes
and conspiracy.
Bancroft Davis Uels tbe llermss
Mission.
New Yobk, June 14.—A cable speoial
says Bancroft Davit has received the
German nr'saion.
Weather.
Washington, Juno 14.—Indications.
Mouth Atlanlio Mtates, stationary pressure,
higher temperature, southeast winds,
partly oloudy and oloudy weather with
rain area*.
The Indianapolis Journal has prooured
a report of the speeoh whioh Robert
Toombs, of Georgia, mode in response to
a serenade at tho Arkansas Hot Springs
on Thursday night, May 31. Gen. Toombs
was introduced by lion. M. J. Henderson,
and, after the applause bad Babsided,
spoke substantially os follows :
“I think you for your kindly greeting,
and I assure you I appreciate your kiud-
ness to me personally. I have bad many
raauy evidences of this good will iu the
six or seven Stales through which I have
passed siuoe I left my native Georgia.
Although they have been pleasant to me,
especially from the source whioh they
eame, yet they have not been unmixed
with sadness. Most of the genera
tions in whioh I havo livod hare
passed away ; many of them havo been
gathered to their fathers in qniet and
peace. Many, after long and nsefnl lives,
many of them in bumble life, have been
taken away in peace. They have gath
ered around them the drapery of their
oonobes and laid down to pleasaut dreams;
bnt a large portion of the men of my gen
eration have passed sway in the tempest
of the storm. Devoted to liberty and
patriotism, they have gone out in the
roar and thunder of battle. [Applanso.]
They have joined that great army of
martyrs who havo fongbt for liberty and
oountry from generation to generation,
for thousands of years. They have joined
them on tho high eternal plains where
glory keeps eternal watch over the bivon-
aos of the dead. Bat they have left be
hind them sorno of their old comrades in
the great straggle—they hsve left some
survivors of iheir glories and objects; and,
alas, they havo left widows, mothers, sons
and daughters.
I oongratolato your Mtate on many ao-
oonnta. She, in common with many of
her sister Mtates, after tbo anfforings of
the war, for fonr years spoliation, U s by
the wisdom, prudenco and moderation of
yonr servants (among whom is my distin
guished friond, whom you have honored
yourselves in naming this oounty aftor,
who, aftor tho Mtate had boon wrested
from spoilers’ bands, and though poor
and battered, yet with tbe heavens above
yon; with strong arms, stout hearts; with
soil boundless in fertility, you are again
ready to straggle for prosperity and
wealth, seonrity, liberty, stability and
order. I congratulate the Moathern Mtates
that after all tho wasto and devastation
and rain whioh have overspread
them, especially oar slaters who
have recently emerged from ohaos,
after having lost tho glorious
Confederate ting, whioh I am proud to
warship now as I did on the battle fields
of Virginia, Maryland and Georgia, tbat
they are again the masters of their own
destiny. I congratulate them upon tbe
ohange after the defeat and disaster and
wreok and rain of ton years, that they
are tbs mssteas of themselvos, and as
ready again to defond right and liberty
and republican govei ament. It is true
tbat the old constitution and all those
allodiums of liberty thrown around us
lave perished. It is true we have what
is called a new constitution which I re
gard as no constitution at all, and the
amendments I detest and abhor, and
will never reoognize them ns a funds
mental law. But we have the traditions
of liberty, we have tbe traditions of onr
English ancestors, which neither defeat
nor disaster can eradicate, and are atill
ready as ever to maintain those glorious
privileges.
I congratulate also oar fellow-citizens
of the North. It has taught them some
wiso lessons. Instigated by the lust of
gain, under the guise of pioty, did they
many wicked things. I thank God thero
is an avenging Nemesis tbat follows tbo
traok of revengi ul viotory to right wrongs
and punish evil doers. They have fouud
out tbat the men who pratieed crime, des
potism, snd inflictod rain to tbe Mouthorn
Rates, want to praotieo the artH thoy havo
learned npon their own, oonni'ymen.
Like the children of death, bngotten in
sin, when thoy had destroyed us, thoy
went home, and have sot about eating
tbe vitals of their own people. Now
throughout tbe land we boar tho wail of
want and misoiy genoraliy over Ibis
oountry. But evei./thing is not lost as
long as wo have snob a country and men
fit to live in and govern it. Nations have
waged war before; battles have been lost
and won; countries have been devastated,
bnt tkoBe who have been trne to the prin
ciples of good government have risen
again, nnoonquered and nnoonqnerablo.
I congratulate onr friondsof tho North,
too, for tbe greater re son that they have
fouud that there *s no safety for the pub
lic except in tbe great principle of Mtate
sovereignty. The pooplo of the Mtates
delegated to the General Government a
lortion of their sovereign powers, others
.hey vested in their Mtate governments,
and the brlanoe they held themselves—
they haven't trusted them to either gov
ernment—and tbe destrnotion of either
one or tbe other was tho deal motion of
one of tbo greatest and strongest safe
guards of liberty and law. In tearing
down those bnlwarka they hsve opened the
alnice-gates of corruption and filled the
land with thousands of ill-regulated, dan-
gerons corporations, excisemen and people
who live not by labor, bnt by frand,and are
purely national, abhor sectionalism, and
steal from all alike: I thank those pa-
tiiots throughout tbe North who have
aided ns in onr groat struggle in the esnse
of reform of publio evil. In a very large
majority of tbo new Mtatos, tbe wards of
the nation bogan to see the right; at ieaBt
they began to feel oppression—they had
sens* enough to know that when taxes
oatue like a postilenoo they did not os
cape ; the law took penoe from poverty
as pounds from woaltb. I voted for
neither Tilden nor Hayes, snd therefore I
oan speak to you, fellow-citizens, with
impartiality. Tbo only oonsolation I can
find is that tbe evils dono have been so
general that good may now come of it.
Let us go baok to tbe old prineiples.
After forty years of public service I oould
tell all I know of government in a single
paragraph, and it would not then be half
as long as some sontencos in one of Meo-
rotary Evarts’ speeches.
Government was not mado for the few,
bnt for all. It was mado bocanse wioked,
bad, nnjust men wonld not do justice to
their neighbors. The good men of tbe
eonntry said: “Let ns got together and
establish a legislatr-e to make laws, a
judiciary to interpret them, and an exeo-
ntive to execute them. With theee prin
ciples clone we will got peace and secur
ity; wo will make the oountry secure, and
then we will let everybody alone; au<1 that
is the whole science of government. To
keep tho country from invasion and from
domostio tronbie, administer jnstieo be
tween man and man; draw the trne divid
ing line liolween powers of the Govern
ment aud the rights of the individual
man, and then let evory man pnrsue his
own interest. It is a great mistake to
suppose that the interests of one honest
man ever oonfliot with the interests of
another honost man. ThiB is the expe
rience of all the material world in all of
God's works. Think yon the Great
Father of us all has mado harmony in this
great universe everywhere else and failed
in this, tho greatest neod of man ? No,
no, no I It is not trne. Heaven forbid
it. God's wisdom, power, meroy, ali for
bid it.
When yon spend money taken from tho
Treasury for the benefit of one olaas or
part of the oountry, yon are committing a
great wrong. Wrong always comes home
to roost. We see it now. I have heard
it all my life, and C7 years of experience
has provon the fact to me. I do not like
tho prineiples of tbe present so-
osllcd Deinnoratio party, but I like less
the principles and praetiaes of the Repub
lican party. The Demooratio parly have
not had recently a chance to have any
praotieo at all, and thoy took the host tl oy
oould get, aud that was bad principles.
Hayes got in, not by his own sot—ho is
there by tho folly or incapacity of the
present Democratic party. llayes is
President <(« facto. I paid littlo at
tention to his promises, but he has takon
liis post, and carried thorn ont.
He has done alt that Tilden oonld have
done so far ss I -u's'vna and Month
Uarolina are concerned. He has given
them baok that pearl of great price, bo
has given back that jewel, tint life-blood
of good government, whioh makes all else
E OBsibie—State self government. lie has
ronght baok tbo ark of the Government
and plaoed it where it belongs. lie* has
oommenoed civil servioe reform ; he has
ordered his offloers to torn oat
bad men, and to tnrn ont nseioss offi
cials, who food npon the people as drones
in tho hives; snd I applaud him for these
things. I will approve of whatever good
he does, and will oondemn whatever ho
does of evil. This is tho duty of evory
patriot. la it not time that wo should
sink tho partisan into tbo patriot ? Tbe
Mouth never sought any pecuniary advan
tage from the Government of tho United
Mtates ; she ought to seek none now. I
was in Oongroxa soventocn years, and in
my own distriot in Eastorn Georgia, and
I say to you now that I never
got a dollar ont of tho Treasury for one
single spot in that distriot. I was not
sent there to steal. Every dollar taken
from the Treasury for any one particu
lar locality is an injustice to the roBt of
the oountry, and I can tell yon, to the
glory of my const! rents, that in tho sev
enteen years of my public sets lee in Oon-
greea, no man in Georgia asked me to do
it. Wo havo a grand eonntry ourselves
—a goodly land, a magnificent horitage,
ail that a good man needs iR this world.
We osn be quite prosperous and happy if
we will stand by tho old landmarks and
sustain good progress. Let ns hang onr
banners on o outer ws'l, neither cha
grined by trohobery, d'aheartetied by de
sertion, nor overawed by dofeat. Let us
display a magnanimity as great as tha oc
casion, as prolonged as the conflict—all
then will he well for us and our obildren,
and ohildrou's obildren 'Till time shall be
no more."
THE HAUUAUE SMASH A H’* STOKV
BOW HE HANDLED THE THUNK OF A NEWLY-
MARRIED COUPLE OF UNCERTAIN AGE.
“Where is the baggage master 7” the
reporter asked a dappor little fellow in a
blue uDiform and a gold-handed oap at
tbe I’en: ylvuiiiu Railroad depot, a day or
two ago.
“I am ono of thorn.”
“Yon 7" tho reportor said enquiringly,
and then looked him ovor. “What I" he
thought himself, this iittie pin and needle
fellow, the trunk smasher of the road 1
No. He oan only be the deceitful dnm
ray, put here to deludo travellers with the
belief that thoir baggage will be handled
like a oan of i‘tro-glyoeriue. The mau
with the iron fiat snd steel boot, who
jerks the life out of a trunk by a twist of
the wrist, must he behind somewhere.''
Just then a carriage drove up, a lady
got out, aud a gentleman aHked for ahecks
for a moderate sized trunk for Chicago.
The dappor littlo fellow looked at their
tiokots, put a cheok on the trunk, aud
then by amystorious twist, and without
seeming to movo bis body, skilfully roll
ed it along the long baggage room. As he
reached the traok, on whioh other tranks
bad been loaded, ho gave a little yank,
and the trunk bounded up from the door.
Another movement, too rapid for the re
porter to see what it was, and the trauk
lay on the truok, without so muoh ns a
pin soratah on it. Then the baggage
master eame hack, as fresh and as clean
as a fancy bar-tendor.
' Whero's your baggage 7” ho askod tho
marvelling reporter.
I bnv'nt any, Bnt how is it you han
dle that trunk so easy 7"
The little man looked at the reporter
politely, bnt inquisitively. The reporter
told him who be was, and that he wanted
to know something about tho eeorets of
tbe business, and whether they wore get
ting ready to smash a pile of tranks this
summer.
Then a sad look crept ovor his faoa.
“Smashing's gone by, at least here
abouts, ” ho said. “There isn’t any more
fun in the business saoh as tha old man
tell me there used to bo. We don’t have
any chance to study people* and get to
know them by their tranks as tho old fel
lows did. There isn’t any life, not a bit
of free and easy work about this thing
now-a-days. A fellow, if ho is going into
baggaging, onght to havo begun twenty
years ago. Than there was fun. I didn't
know myself—only what I hear the old
boys ssy.”
“Then yon don’t oil up your arms and
practioo with tbo dumb boils, and kiok the
sand bags, no as to got in good working
trim to maater a trunk 7"
S“No, indoed: we’ve been trained very
differently. It’s gone to the otbor ex
treme. Tboy expect us to wear a oloan
shirt, a Piccadilly collar, with a white tie,
use perfumed soap on our hands, and to
keep our boots blaoked. On the cars we
oan put on a eslico jacket to keep the dost
off from our shirt bosoms. Bnt you no
tioe a baggageman don't show himself now
any more that ho can holp when the trains
stop. You can jnst see his head out of
the oar door when he’s nnloading a trank.
Then wo have to learn bow to got a pur
chase on a trank, so as to twist it around
on one oorner. and make all the strain
oome on that oorner and on onr wrists,
and a aoratoh on a trunk now shows that
some green hand has had hold of it. .
They'll expect os to learn the languages I fel>4 tim
next. Oh, yes, we’re seientifio, bnt there
isn’t any fun about it any more," and tbe
poor fellow sighed.
“Let me take your band," he continu
ed. He gave the reporter's hand a wrench
that made it foel as though it hail got into
the screw of an ocean steamer.
“That’s what it dooa for us any way.
The old boys oould have knocked your
head off at one blow, bnt they conldn't
squeeze like that.”
“Last year, the Centennial, yon know,
was a busy one for ns, and we had more
regular cowsheds of trunkB to handle; bnt
we managed moBt of them, exoept hair
tranks, I swan; but we did hate to get
hold Of a hair trunk. Yon oan’t get any
purohase on them. They are so slippery
that you asu’t do anything with them,
and the life <ron handles ont the fingers.
It looks now as though travel would be
light this summer. The hot ape 1 turned
out a few, bnt business isn’t going to be
very driviug. If you want to know the
difference between baggaging now and a
few years ago see some of the old boys.”
Now, this little talk was a revelation,
and it Beeiueil a good thing to follow np
tbe disclosure, and see whether the tradi
tional baggage smasher was really pissing
away like so many other of the delightful
old institutions whioh civilization, and es
pecially railroad civilization, has destroy
ed.
At the Erie, tbe Central Now Jersey,
and the Grind Central depots the reporter
found tho name dapper little men. Some
of them would talk a little abont business,
bnt alt wero sad. They hear stories about
tho old days, when the smashers looked
on the trank as a person, and felt free to
aot out their real feelings toward it.
They see that the veterans learned a lot
of human nature from trunks, and oonld
tell at a glaoe what sort of a person repre
sented a particular piece of baggage, and
then they would troat that pariianlar piece
in jnst the way to disturb that person.
No, tho now men are getting to be ma
chines. They do their work perfeotly, .
neatly, and nniformly; bnt the monotony
of it shows itself on their habits. Ask
them if they expect muoh summer travel; '
many Maratoga tracks to handle ; if they
are in good oonditlon to grapple with the
throo dockers—they smile sadly. They
don’t seem to expoet anything : their
training tenohos them that a Maratoga
differs from a bog-skin valise only in the
method of treatment, rnd they eare no
more for a “ir. . decker than for a carpet
bag. They have mr ired the bnsineaa
soil itifior 'ly, and It b- i mastered them—
knocki d p’l tbe individuality out of them.
Mo I eoutdu't learn from them whether a
big or ’’ttle summer travel is expeoted.
If yon want to find a smasher of tbe old
stamp in New York you have got to look
Borne timo for him. The oonntry roads
are as .all of them as ever. The soien-
t'flo treatment hasn't reached them yet.
Ontside of New York yon are in a great
danger of finding yonr hair oil, polishing
np that white dnok suit, or beat bonnet
jammed in at the crown, or a hinge gone,
or any of those little exoitements whioh
have given a piqnanoy to travel so'long as
ever.
The reporter fonnd one of the old sta
gers, however—a man who had handled ooe
of the first tranks put on the New Havon
road. This relie is not sad bnt mad, and
it took somo coaxing to get him to talk.
“Yes, he said, “yes, it's all changed.
Better for the trank, worse for the man,
and worse for the traveller. A person
who behaved himself and got a decent
trank never had any trouble with it. One
or two dents, a few scratches, learned
folks a lesson; and those trank
makers wore as ranch to blame for it as
We didn't have to get trained. All
wo needed was a good pair of arms. We
worked by sheer strength, not 8oienoe,and
there was fun in it. Why, we got so we
oould tell tho minute we looked at a trunk
what sort of a person owned it. I oould
tell an old maid's tmfc at sight. I
can't tell yon how. There waa a sort of
look about it. If the trank showed her a
olever sort of person it never got auy
hard usage, hut if she was a sour, pep-
permiut oaudy eating one,tbat trunk gen
erally eame out of the oar worse than it
went in. We used to love to get hold of
a dandy's. How we'd shake it up and
laugh to think bow he'd look when he got
to bis hotel! We’d make it look worse
than a cutlery drummer’s. We used to
fight shy of drummers' tranks. They
knew the ropes. Then there were tbe
codfish, six cent aristocratic fools. They
always carried the biggest trunks. That's
why they got banged up so. It wasn’t be
cause the trunk was big, though everybo
dy supposed so, It was because only
stuck up folks traveled with Saratogas.
Why, tbe real gentlemen and ladies never
made much splurge with trunks when
thoy traveled. I never got stock but
onoe with a trank. One was pnt on a few
years ago tbat we oonldn't make ont. I
thought it was some stingy old bachelor's;
tho other boys swore it was su old
maid’s.”
Here the old smasher laughed out
right.
‘Whose was it?" the roporter asked.
‘Well, we were all right. The con
ductor came into the baggage car and
told ns he’d got tbe eat bridal oouple
on tbe train. An old maid and a bach.
The old maid bad boon in failing health,
and the doctor had told her tbat carriage
riding wonld do her good. She waa cloae
and wouldn't pay for a team, so she hit
on a plan of going to allthefnnerala. She
went to every funeral for a year, and so
got free rides. Well, she met the old
linffor at a funeral, and told him she was
going to another the next day. Ho was
thero,and they rodo together to the grave.
He proposed when in a hook at a funeral.
It was their trunk we had, and it looked
as though it had hoen through the Rev
olutionary war. It was tbe siokest looking
trank I ever saw whon we got through
with it.
FRESH ARRIVAL 1 ‘
Black Laoe Moarfs $1.50 to $3.
White “ “ $1, $2 and $3.
Embroidered Swiss Muslins;
Ladios' and Genta’ Colored Bordered
llandkorohiefs;
Ladies'Milk Ties;
Laae Bibs;
An elegant lino of Marseilles Suits;
A large variety of Japanese Fans from
10c. to $1;
Dress Buttons in new shades.
tf Blanchard A Hill.
AT COST I AT COST!!
Kiiiuembor tbat we will offer for a short
while onr entire stook of Spring and
Mummer Dress Goods at oost and below
cost. We mean business.
tf Blanchard A Hill.
W. A. 1.1TTLK,
ATTORNEY AND OOUNSKLLOB-AT.LAW,
